What is "telephotography"

Telephotography \Tel`e*pho*tog"ra*phy\, n.

1. The photography of distant objects in more enlarged form than is possible by the ordinary means, usually by a camera provided with a telephoto lens or mounted in place of the eyepiece of a telescope, so that the real or a magnified image falls on the sensitive plate.

2. Art or process of electrically transmitting and reproducing photographic or other pictures at a distance, especially by methods similar to those used in electric telegraphy.

3. Less properly, phototelegraphy.

n. 1 (context photography English) photography of distant subjects using a telephoto lens 2 The transmission of images over a distance, especially by facsimile

1. n. transmission and reproduction of photographs and charts and pictures over a distance

2. photography using a telephoto lens